Getting Started

Links

• Introduction to Windows PowerShell

• PowerShell Community Extensions

Environment Variables

List

dir env:
Get-ChildItem env:

Usage

$env:TEMP
[io.path]::GetFullPath($env:temp)
${env:TEMP}

Set

$env:patrick="John"

File system

Directory listing:

dir
ls
Get-ChildItem

…to list all items in subfolders:

Get-ChildItem -recurse

…suppose you want information about only the .txt and .log files found in a folder:

Get-ChildItem c:\scripts\*.* -include *.txt,*.log

Home

To change into your home folder:

cd ~

Variables

Current Path:

$pwd

Set

$patrick=42

Remove

Note that, with the Remove-Variable cmdlet, we need to leave off the $ when indicating the variable to be removed:

Remove-Variable patrick